Water temperature is one of the main abiotic factors affecting the structure and functioning of
aquatic ecosystems and its alteration can have important effects on biological communities …

Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure,
monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of …

With the demand for, and scale of, ecological restoration increasing globally, effectiveness
monitoring remains a significant challenge. For forest restoration, structural complexity is a …

Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, yet our knowledge of their diversity,
ecology and population trends remains abysmally poor. Four major technological …

Global change effects on biodiversity and human wellbeing call for improved long-term
environmental data as a basis for science, policy and decision making, including increased …

Highlights•Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services has far reaching societal
relevance.•A user-driven monitoring framework is needed to address the biodiversity …

Abstract The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting
(SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their …

Biodiversity includes multiscalar and multitemporal structures and processes, with different
levels of functional organization, from genetic to ecosystemic levels. One of the mostly used …